UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses

Yahoo! ^ | Jul 14 2005 | Aoife White

[Nebr FAL owner]

I tend to agree with you concerning the UN's political agenda & it's desire to gain control of the infrastructure that runs internet address/traffic control. Besides we built the thing we are the ones who ought to keep it running for the sake of the rest of the world.

[oldbrowser]

If it exists, regulate it.

This is what governments do, they govern (even if they a totally unqualified).

The UN is not a government, they must never be allowed to become a government.

Then the next step will be to tax it (in order to provide funding for the coordination).

[Toskrin]

This is all classic socialism thinking at work, on an international level. Seize the work that one nation has invested successfully in for the good of the world.

There is nothing to prevent the UN from building their own naming scheme that sits as a layer on top of the current network. But that would require work, and socialists don't like to do work, they just like to steal someone else's.

[Ol' Sox]

UN: "Thanks for building it. We'll take it from here."

USA: "Well, who do you have working on it?"

UN: "We've got our top men working on it."

USA: (incredulously) "What men? What men are working on it??"

UN: "TOP men"

/sarc

[dhuffman@awod.com]

GET US OUT OF UN
GET UN OUT OF US

Democracy is the rule of fools by fools. Hence socialism.

[miele man]

Al Gore just needs to put his pink hands upon his hips, lean slightly forward from the waist and then stomp his left foot, all the while shouting to the UN pinheads; "just stop it, guys".

"There, that'll fix it".


Grundle, you are right, "It ain't broke" but if the UN gets a hold on it, it'll be screwed up big time and in short order and I'm sure with a hefty user tax tacked on it.

[wildbill]

The only way they can take our Cisco servers is from our cold dead hands!

[wildbill]

By the way, I was not surprised to see "no selfcontrol" amongst all those many keywords.

[joesnuffy]

Only communists believe that the person who invented, built,worked the bugs out, marketed...added all his labor to
and object,a process, or and idea doesnt own it..

And that private ownership (and control) of property is immoral

[fallujah-nuker]

I believe the US government actually created the internet as DARPAnet (DOD, not Al Gore).

[DustyMoment]

UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses

And, especially not a group of moronic, demented, totalitarian socialists such as those comprising the Useless Nations Debate Club.

[grundle]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark?

[grundle]

I didn't put any of those keywords there.

[RightWhale]

China even threatened a few years ago to split the Internet in two and set up its own naming system for Chinese.

They might just as well make the split official. It is characteristic of China to wall themselves off.

[Ol' Sox]

Bingo!

[Sprite518]

BINGO

[Ol' Sox]

Bingo!

[mcar]

Who gave The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) power to decide anything about the Internet? This has been going on for several years now with China leading the way, (the country which censors what its own citizens access on the internet) along with the support of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, and South Africa, all defenders of human rights.

…wanted to wrest control from ICANN and place it with an intergovernmental group, possibly under the United Nations.

America did well; they invented and suck the cost into it, but now its time for wrest control

Typical of the Power-grabbing U.N.

[wildbill]

HMMM. You are the second poster today who had the same odd plethora of keywords. Maybe the problem lies with the html coding.